HCL Connections Ideas Portal

Welcome to the HCL Connections Product Ideas Lab! The place where you can submit product ideas and enhancement request. We encourage you to participate by voting on, commenting on, and creating new ideas. All new ideas will be evaluated by the HCL Product Management & Engineering teams, and the next steps will be communicated. While not all submitted ideas will be executed upon, community feedback will play a key role in influencing which ideas are and when they will be implemented.

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    RTE option "Link to Files" not available in standalone activity

    If you go to a ‘’stand alone’’ activity (edited) there is no ‘’link to connections files’' option. 1. Create a standalone activity 2. Inside the standalone activity, add an entry or todo 3. In the description field, the rich text editor provide...
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 3 No Plans to Implement

    Activities from Template - Notification

    The notifications in "My Notifications" are correct. On creating from template and on changing the action entry user will be notified but even if I change the due date in a action the action owner gets no new entry in "Action required" view. Hence...
    about 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 3 Needs Clarification

    color flag blog posts based on topic category

    ​to be able to select a category for a blog post. based on the category selected the title of the blog post to show up in a specific color + a flag in order to easily see which blog posts belong to a particular category. also to be able to select ...
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Activity notification should be on off switchable

    ​With creation of an activity every member will be informed about it. That's OK and reasonable. But later with every single change for example of the wording or some detail, again every member of the activity will get mail notification. That means...
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    PDF Export Functionality with MS Teams/ICXT Integration

    Add an additional "Save as File" option to allow downloading of the PDF directly instead of leveraging the browser's PDF viewer.
    over 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Remember sorting of Community Files

    As of CR3/CR4 Files stores the last used view and sorting options for each user. But Community Files does not, which is inconsistent behavior and hard to explain to end users. It would be great to see the feature there as well.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Link Files from other communities

    Currently, it is only possible to link to a file in a Wiki page from the community where the Wiki belongs to. But sometimes it would be very useful if you can link to files from other communities.Please implement the ability to select files from o...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Track usage of Shared Link for files

    When sharing a file via link you cannot see how many people have taken advantage of it and, if authenticated, who has downloaded / viewed the file in question. This is important for two reasons: 1) audibility and 2) measurement of success.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration

    Support IBM Plex

    IBM Connections should support IBM Plex for the IBMers who use it. More information for IBMers about this here: https://apps.na.collabserv.com/blogs/connections-features/entry/Support_and_display_IBM_s_corporate_font?lang=en_us
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Increase guest invitation deadline

    External guests currently only get 24 hours to act upon the invitation email. The link then expires and you have to send them another invite. This is far too short. It should be at least 7 days,
    over 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Already Exists
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